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Christ Our Advocate
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An Anglican church plant in Wheaton, IL, committed to a life of Contemplation & Action: worship & service, prayer & protest, meditation & marching. www.christouradvocate.org
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A collect for the feast of St. Clement of Rome
Almighty God, you chose your servant Clement of Rome to recall the Church in Corinth to obedience and stability: Grant that your Church may be grounded and settled in your truth by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit; reveal to it what is not yet known; fill up what is lacking; confirm what has already been revealed; and keep it blameless in your service; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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A collect for the feast of St. Hilda of Whitby
O God of peace, by whose grace the abbess Hilda was endowed with gifts of justice, prudence, and strength to rule as a wise mother over the nuns and monks of her household: Raise up these gifts in us, that we, following her example and prayers, may build up one another in love to the benefit of your church; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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A collet for the consecration of Samuel Seabury
We give you thanks, O Lord our God, for your goodness in bestowing upon this church the gift of the episcopate; and we pray that, joined together in unity with our bishops and nourished by your holy sacraments, we may proclaim the Gospel of redemption with apostolic zeal; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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"The question the Sadducees bring to Jesus to trap him is a question about how to read Scripture. Behind the trick is the deeper issue: how does life continue on? Is God faithful to God’s promises, or is it up to us to ensure our life continues on as a people?"

Sermon: @aaronmharrison.bsky.social
Advent Creep — CHRIST OUR ADVOCATE
The question the Sadducees bring to Jesus is to trap him is a question about how to read Scripture. Behind the trick is the deeper issue: how does life continue on? Is God faithful to God’s promises, ...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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A collect for the feast of St. Leo of Rome
O Lord our God, grant that your Church, following the teaching of your servant Leo of Rome, may hold fast the great mystery of our redemption, and adore the one Christ, true God and true Man, neither divided from our human nature nor separate from your divine Being; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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A collect for hte feast of St. Willibrord
O Lord our God, you call whom you will and send them where you choose: We thank you for sending your servant Willibrord to be an apostle to the Low Countries, to turn them from the worship of idols to serve you, the living God; and we entreat you to preserve us from the temptation to exchange the perfect freedom of your service for servitude to false gods and to idols of our own devising; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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"You cannot honor a saint without honoring God because the saint is holy through the gracious work of God. The life we see in the saints is the life of Christ. The light we see in the saints is the light of Christ."

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All Saints Proclaim Christ — CHRIST OUR ADVOCATE
You cannot honor a saint without honoring God because the saint is holy through the gracious work of God. The life we see in the saints is the life of Christ. The light we see in the saints is the lig...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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"The truth of the Church as Christ’s body is alive and active and doing what Christ commands it to do: justify the ungodly."

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It’s Not the Pharisee’s House — CHRIST OUR ADVOCATE
If the Church is the body of Christ, which scripture testifies that it is, then it must be a place where God invites us to learn to tell the truth, about ourselves and about him. The Pharisee’s tithes...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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"The Lord of the Banquet, our humble host, offers everyone a choice seat at the feast that matters most."
Stories of Status — CHRIST OUR ADVOCATE
The Lord of the Banquet, our humble host, offers everyone a choice seat at the feast that matters most. If you’re new to Advocate or new to liturgical worship, you’ll have an opportunity, during the s...
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September 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Yesterday my church helped me remember I’ve been ordained 11 years. Love the people at @advocatewheaton.bsky.social
(Icon of Maximus the Confessor…they know me)
September 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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A collect for the Beheading of St. John the Baptist
Almighty God, who called your servant John the Baptist to go before your Son our Lord both in life and death; Grant that we who remember his witness may with boldness speak your truth and in humility hear it when it is spoken to us, through Jesus Christ, the firstborn from the dead, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns one God for ever and ever. Amen.
August 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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A collect for the Feast of St. Augustine of Hippo
Lord God, the light of the minds that know you, the life of the souls that love you, and the strength of the hearts that serve you: Help us, following the example of your servant, Augustine of Hippo, so to know you that we may truly love you, and so to love you that we may fully serve you, whose service is perfect freedom; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
August 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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A collect for the Feast of St. Bartholomew
Almighty and everlasting God, who gave to your apostle Bartholomew grace truly to believe and to preach your Word: Grant that your Church may love what he believed and preach what he taught; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
August 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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"The kingdom of peace is breaking into the world with crisis and division and cataclysm and fire. [...] Jesus himself was crushed by the conflict of the crash of the Kingdom of God breaking into this world, and his blood is the wine we'll drink tonight together."
At the End of Our Hope — CHRIST OUR ADVOCATE
The kingdom of peace is breaking into the world with crisis and division and cataclysm and fire. And for those who feel rent in two by it, know this, Jesus himself was crushed by the conflict of the c...
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August 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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A collect for the Feast of St. Bernard of Clairvaux
O God, by whose grace your servant Bernard of Clairvaux, kindled with the flame of your love, became a burning and a shining light in your church: Grant that we also may be aflame with the spirit of love and discipline and walk before you as children of light; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
August 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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A collect for the Feast of St. Mary the Virgin
O God, you have taken to yourself the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of your incarnate Son: Grant that we, who have been redeemed by his blood, may share with her the glory of your eternal kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
August 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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A collect for Florence Nightingale:
O God, who gave grace to your servant Florence Nightingale to bear your healing love into the shadow of death: Grant to all who heal the same virtues of patience, mercy, and steadfast love, that your saving health may be revealed to all; through Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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A collect for the Feast of St. Clare of Assisi:
O God, whose blessed Son became poor that we through his poverty might be rich: Deliver us from an inordinate love of this world, that we, inspired by the devotion of your servant Clare, might serve you with singleness of heart, and attain to the riches of the age to come; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
August 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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"We no longer live under Greed’s tyranny and dominion. To live in slavery to Greed is, in fact, to deny our freedom in Christ and subject ourselves to another yoke of bondage. That is not what Christ has for us. That is not what the Spirit-filled life promises."
A Warning for Fools — CHRIST OUR ADVOCATE
Greed is one of the powers and principalities Jesus has freed us from through his life, death, and resurrection. We no longer live under Greed’s tyranny and dominion. To live in slavery to Greed is, i...
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August 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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A collect for the Feast of the Transfiguration:
A collect for the Feast of the Transfiguration: "O God, who on the holy mount revealed to chosen witnesses your well-beloved Son, wonderfully transfigured, in raiment white and glistening: Mercifully grant that we, being delivered from the disquietude of this world, may by faith behold the King in his beauty; who with you, O Father, and you, O Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."
August 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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A collect for the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola
Almighty God, who called Ignatius of Loyola to the service of your Divine Majesty and to seek you in all things; Give us also the grace to labor without counting the cost and to seek no reward other than knowing that we do your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.
July 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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"Tonight I have privilege to declare this good news: God is gracious and can be trusted with your every need, and promises you God’s very self the Holy Spirit."
How Much More — CHRIST OUR ADVOCATE
I have the daunting task of inviting you to do something you already think is important; To do something you already value; But when asked you’re never satisfied with your efforts. You already think ...
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July 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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A collect for the Feast of Saints Mary and Martha of Bethany
O God, heavenly Father, your Son Jesus Christ enjoyed rest and refreshment in the home of Mary and Martha of Bethany: Give us the will to love you, open our hearts to hear you, and strengthen our hands to serve you in others for his sake; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
July 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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A collect for the Feast of St. James, apostle and martyr
O gracious God, we remember before you today your servant and apostle James, first among the Twelve to suffer martyrdom for the Name of Jesus Christ; and we pray that you will pour out upon the leaders of your Church that spirit of self-denying service by which alone they may have true authority among your people; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
July 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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A collect for the Feast of Thomas á Kempis
Holy Father, you have nourished and strengthened your church by the writings of your servant Thomas à Kempis: Grant that we may learn from him to know what is necessary to be known, to love what is to be loved, to praise what highly pleases you, and always to seek to know and to follow your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
July 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM